Panel Discussion and Concert for Saturday, December 9, 2006:

Charles Amirkhanian moderates a panel discussion with the three composers featured in the second concert of the 12th Other Minds Festival. Maja Ratkje, who was too ill to take part in the panel discussion the day before, speaks about her interest in Japanese gagaku music as well as giving a preview of her work with the Norwegian group POING, which features the composer’s extended vocal techniques combined with electronics, saxophones, accordion, and string bass. Joëlle Leandre is French composer and string bass player, who discusses how her interest in sound poetry has influenced her interest in improvisational performance. Per Nørgård, the premiere Danish composer of his time, discusses his piece Wie ein Kind for mixed chorus a cappella, and how it was inspired by Swiss schizophrenic, Adolf Wölfli and German poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

Concert Program:
Wie ein Kind: Lullany, Spring Song, Funeral March with Attendant Minor Accident [three movements] (1980) - Per Nørgård
Essential Extensions (1999) - Maja Ratkje
Passing Images: Waltz (2003) - Maja Ratkje
Rondo, Bastard, Overture, Explosion (2004) - Maja Ratkje
a free improvisation in nine movements - Joëlle Leandre

Performers:

Volti (Wie ein Kind)
Robert Geary, conductor (Wie ein Kind)

Maja Ratkje, voice and electronics (all pieces by Ratkje)
POING: (all pieces by Ratkje)
Frode Haltli, accordion (all pieces by Ratkje)
Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, saxophones (all pieces by Ratkje)
Håkon Thelin, string bass (all pieces by Ratkje)

Joëlle Leandre Trio:
Joëlle Leandre, string bass
Gunda Gottschalk, violin
Xu Fengxia, guzheng


This audio is part of the collection: Other Minds Audio Archive
It also belongs to collections: Music & Arts; stream_only

Artist/Composer: other minds
Date: 2006-12-09
Keywords: Other Minds Festival of New Music; Music; New Music; 20th Century Classical; OM 12

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

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